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Water fountain dating back to 1853, adorned by Biblical quote. Historically interesting! And possibly significant!

This generation’s biggest ‘selling stuff to bad guys’ scandals may well be over surveillance technology.

Companies like McAfee have been accused of selling technology that helps the governments of Iran, Yemen, Bahrain, Egypt, Tunisia, and others to censor their citizens.

In the wake of the Arab Spring, which brought social-network powered action against repressive regimes to the front pages, and the SOPA/PIPA dispute, that has spread ‘Stop censorship’ badges across the internet in protest against the actions of major corporations, surveillance technology sales seems likely to become a much hotter issue in the next few years.